Codling vs Codding - What's the difference?
codling | codding |
A small, young cod
* 1922 , Hugh Lofting,
A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus .
A small, immature apple
* 1601–02 , ,
* 1800 , Hannah Glasse and Maria Wilson,
Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
See also codling moth, which plant their lavae in apples.
As verbs the difference between codling and codding
is that codling is while codding is .As a noun codling
is a small, young cod or codling can be a small, immature apple.As an adjective codding is
(obsolete) lustful.codling
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle'', part 4, chapter 2, ''The Fidgit's Story:
- “Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds. Some codling had got caught in the net the same time as we were. These the old men threw back into the sea; but us they seemed to think very precious. …”
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)Etymology 3
* Some dictionaries including Merriam-Webster online list (etyl) querdlyng, being equivalent to modern (-ling). * Some dictionaries including Collins online list “Unknown”.Alternative forms
* codlinNoun
(en noun)Twelfth Night, act 1, scene 5:
- Malvolio: Not yet old enough for a man, nor yong enough
for a boy: as a squash is before tis a pescod, or a Codling
when tis almost an Apple: Tis with him in standing water,
betweene boy and man. He is verie well-fauour'd,
and he speakes verie shrewishly: One would thinke his
mothers milke were scarse out of him
The Complete Confectioner'', ''Creams, &c.:
- To make Codling' Cream.
Take twenty fair ' codlings , core them, beat them in a mortar with a pint of cream, strain it into a dish, put into it some crumbs of brown bread, with a little-sack, and dish it up.
